Vehicle 51008
Class 126
Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: White Circle
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30413
Diagram: 551
Allocations
| 30/03/59 | New to | 67C (Ayr) | |
| unknown | On loan to | 64H (Leith Central) | - Move not listed |
| Oct-60 | Ex-loan back to | 67C (Ayr) | |
| 06/05/73 | Depot code change | AY | |
| 17/05/82 | Stored S. | AY (Ayr) | |
| Jul-82 | Stored U. | AY (Ayr) | |
| 11/08/82 | Withdrawn from | AY (Ayr) |
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51044 | 59404 | 51008 | Noted 25/02/60 | ||||||
| 51050 | 59401 | 51008 | 51009 | Noted 01/04/60 | |||||
| 51009 | 59401 | 51008 | Noted Apr-60 - On a Stanraer service. | ||||||
| 51050 | 59412 | 51008 | Noted 15/04/60 | ||||||
| 51040 | 59412 | 51008 | Noted 23/05/60 | ||||||
| 51045 | 59410 | 51008 | Noted 09/07/60 | ||||||
| 51043 | 59408 | 51008 | Noted 05/12/60 | ||||||
| 51043 | 59400 | 51008 | Noted 18/01/61 | ||||||
| 51041 | 59400 | 51008 | Noted 23/01/61 | ||||||
| 51046 | 59397 | 51008 | Noted 24/03/61 | ||||||
| 51031 | 59397 | 51008 | Noted 05/04/61 | ||||||
| 51043 | 59397 | 51008 | Noted 23/05/61 | ||||||
| 51030 | 59411 | 51008 | Noted 29/06/61 | ||||||
| 51033 | 59394 | 51008 | Noted 06/07/61 | ||||||
| 159 | 51038 | 59412 | 51008 | Listed at 67C - Aug-70 | |||||
| 51047 | 59408 | 51008 | Noted 15/08/70 - in Kyle St sidings1 | ||||||
| 51030 | 59402 | 51008 | Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings1 | ||||||
| 51050 | 59396 | 51008 | Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central2 | ||||||
| 114 | 51044 | 59409 | 51008 | Noted 05/09/73 - at Ayr3 | |||||
| 415 | 51045 | 59392 | 51008 | Listed at AY - 01/02/81 | |||||
| 126410 | 51040 | 59408 | 51008 | Listed at AY - 01/04/82 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
Images:
Unknown date
Class 126 DMS SC51008 seen in Glasgow Works, with a Class 107 behind. Undated. Malcolm Clements.
1981
Swindon Intercity Class 126 vehicles DMBS Sc51034 (set 126404) & DMS Sc51008 at the former goods yard at Ayr in 1981. The main line to Girvan & Stranraer is in the background. This site has now been redeveloped for storage of EMUs. Andrew McConnell.
1st June 1982
A class 126 formation and a class 37 are seen at the site of Shields Road Station on 01-06-1982. The rear class 126 vehicle is DMS(L) Sc51008. The Swindon units by this time being phased out, but all the available units were pressed into service for special trains in connection with the Pope's visit to Glasgow on this day. The units were stored during the day in Smithy Lye, on the other side of the Shields Road bridge, behind the photo location. Andrew McConnell.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 8th June 1959
A six-car Swindon Inter-City DMU on a B service at Saughton Junction on 8 June 1959. The vehicles are recorded as 79102 (with roofboard) + 79163 + 79472 (with roofboard, not recorded as moving from WR to ScR till 9/59) + 79440 (buffet, moved WR to ScR 6/59) + 51008 (an Ayrshire vehicle on loan to Leith Central) + 79096. Stuart Mackay Collection.